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Saturday, 16 June 2012

Want to get your own data about radiation (nuclear fallout). There are several official and independent monitoring sites.

This
blog post will be continually updated. 41th update: September 12th
2011. Please help to identify new radiation monitoring sites. Thank you.

Simple Radiation Dose Calculator: allows to estimate exposer to radiation, a more detailed one can be found at EPA (USA)

Radiation
Network, USA: independent, monitors currently 14 locations in the USA –
three around Seattle, one in California, update every minute
USA, EPA, official monitoring sites: Now with a new interactive site to view the collected data: [link to www.epa.gov]
You can also create an user account to view data from all their 100 air
radiation monitoring stations across the US. Now also with a customer
satisfaction survey!
USA, Santa Monica, West LA: indpendent source, realtime, live stream video of geiger counter via ustream
Hawaii, USA: EPA monitoring data, realtime updated with approximate 1 hour delay
Seattle, Richland,Spokane,Tumwater, USA: updated daily

Tokyo
and Japan: 22 indpendent sources, shared via twitter, link to the data
tables, updates at different intervals dependent on source (varies
between minutes and hours)

Further Sources, Japan plus 1 in
Philippines: indpendent sources across Japan are continously coming now
online. More and more crowd sourced readings available. Additional
sources provided by Ryan and Susan in the Comment Section of this post.
Thank you. Other independent source: Follow on Twitter;

Japan: in Japanese, over 50 data points, can someone give more detail on update frequency and origion of data ?

Japan Map: Showing radiation levels across region and where the data is originated . Article at Science Insider.

Fukushima
and other Towns in Japan: Tweets on radiation level several times per
hour for Aizu-wakamatsu, Minami-Aizu-cho, Minami-soma, Fukushima,
Shirakawa, Koriyama, Iwaki

Kashiwazaki Kariwa Power Plant,
Japan: seven monitoring stations, if you click on the monitoring data
over the last five days is shown in diagram, updates every 30 minutes ?
(Link submitted by Reinhard – see blog post comment section)

Tepco Radiation data Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant : Owner of the Nuclear Power Plant, updated several times per day

Radiation
Nuclear Fallout Volunteer Support Online Network: Connecting people
globally who want to support or are supporting during this crisis, such
as sharing radiation data or what to do when nuclear fallout comes to
their community or help inform people who have no access to internet and
to radiation data, etc…. Submitted by Network

Advise
during nuclear fallout in English and Japanese: no official document,
can someone with expert knowledge confirm advise given.
Information was compiled from the following books in German by a reader of this post: Thank you.
Strohm, H. (1986): Was Sie nach der Reaktorkatastrophe wissen müssen. Frankfurt: Zweitausendeins.
v.Lichtenfels, K.L. (2005): Lexikon des Überlebens. Handbuch für Krisenzeiten. Köln: Anaconda.